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A crock; a jar. [Obs.] Chauser.

A causer of decay. [R.]

An accuser; an informer. [R.] Howell.

The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

ch up. (a) To fasten up. (b) To pull or raise with a jerk; as, a sailor hitches up his trousers. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]

Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

Breeches; trousers. [Colloq. or Slang] Ld. Lytton.

Varieties of kersey; also, trousers made of kersey.

ny article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

An animal whose fur was formerly much in req [Written also lusern and luzern.] The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase. Beau. & Fl.

Trousers made of nankeen. Ld. Lytton. Nankeen bird (Zoöl.), the Australian night heron (Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.

A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.

Originally, in India, loose drawers or trousers, such as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.…

In recent times, same as Trousers.

An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.

To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.